Strange 'martian' mineral mounds rise up
from Utah's Great Salt Lake By Tom Metcalfe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/rare-salt-formations-appear-along-the-great-salt-lake/2020/01/10/5b581e9c-33e5-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html
https://www.space.com/martian-mineral-mounds-rise-utah-salt-lake.html
https://www.lite1065.com/2020/01/16/rare-martian-mineral-mounds-appear-in-utahs-great-salt-lake/
What rare environmental mounds at Great Salt
Lake could teach us about Mars. Utah geologists
document spring mounds for first time
By Amy Joi O'Donoghue, Deseret News, January 7, 2020
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2020/1/7/21055472/great-salt-lake-rare-environmental-mounds-could-teach-us-about-mars
Other publications:
Schubert, B.A., Lowenstein, T.K. and Timofeeff, M.N.,
2009. Microscopic identification of prokaryotes in
modern and ancient halite, Saline Valley and Death
Valley, California. Astrobiology, 9(5), pp.467-482.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.714.5959&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/14ac/33a1fb626040f3019947bfe95903ebe46d99.pdf
Yours,
Paul H.